I bought a 500 GB 2.5″ external disk drive to backup the data of my laptop. It is small, quiet, easy to move and far enough for the important data I want to backup, mostly documents, e-mails or script from work. Being lazy, it happened that I did not backup my data. Yes, it is [...]
Archive of entries posted on September 2009
Cisco configuration buffer full
I got this weired message while trying to save a configuration : #wr mem Building configuration… % Warning: Saving this config to nvram may corrupt any network management or security files stored at the end of nvram. Continue? [no]: no % Configuration buffer full, can’t add command: ************************************************************************ Looks scary at first, but normally it [...]
How to activate music preview in Nautilus
It allows to play a music file by letting the cursor over it, without opening a player. Very easy to set up : $ zypper install mpg123 and it should work immediatly.
Netflow on MLS switches
I had some trouble today at office with monitoring flows going through a MLS switch. The Nfsen collector was working well for our routers, but I came to realize there were something definitely wrong with the traffic going through a Cisco 6500 switch. The traffic reported was way below the real one. After some research, [...]
No Nessus gui client and limited support of the server for openSUSE
As I work on security, I used to use Nessus on my openSUSE system. But it seems that Tenable Network Security dropped support for the client on our favorite distribution. At least, for some reason, they stopped making an universal statically linked binary (though they keep doing it for the server part) and it hasn’t [...]
